The Port Hueneme City Council comments about “reprehensible and unacceptable” conduct “below the minimal standard of behavior for a member of the City Council of the city of Port Hueneme” really must have been transposed in production, since the words are far more applicable to the behavior of all the council members except Jim Hensley.

I have yet to see or hear of any action by any council member in the past three years, or 10 years, that shows concern for the city of Port Hueneme’s people as does Jim Hensley.

As far as Hensley’s questioning of the deputy city manager at a public meeting about "back-door raises,” well, isn’t it The Star’s job to investigate such matters on behalf of your community? The opaque actions on the disbursement of monies to departing Port Hueneme employees is nothing new and are the very issues that Mr. Hensley is trying to uncover.

The old $279,000 settlement that is now a matter of public record is an applicable example. And, of course, current raises are a timely example.

So Carmen Nichols is resigning because of Jim Hensley’s "unwarranted and unsubstantiated allegations"? My goodness, I’ve never witnessed or heard that Ms. Nichols was a shrinking violet before.

While I understand that she may have cause for concern as deputy city manager, I am at a loss why The Star has vilified Hensley while endorsing a person who has been part of the status quo at City Hall for the entire time these shenanigans have played out.

Betty Johnson, Port Hueneme

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